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To back up the photos somewhere besides the cloud, open up the Photos app on your Mac. Then open Preferences, and select the iCloud tab. On that page, select “Download originals to this Mac”. That will save all your photos locally to your computer. If you want to add an external hard drive for extra safety, you can use third-party software like Backblaze, or your Mac’s built-in Time Machine function, which will back up the rest of your computer as well. To manually move all the photos over, just plug in your hard drive, open Finder, go to Pictures, and drag the Photos Library over to the new hard drive.

If you’d like to organize your photos so they are easier to navigate, go to iCloud.com and log in with your AppleID. Then select Photos and click the plus sign at the top to create and name a new album. With the new album created, simply select one or multiple photos, and click the plus sign again to select where you’d like to send them.

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QP School’s Upper Fifth have delivered a record number of A* or equivalent grades** in this year’s IGCSE and GCSE examinations with an outstanding 44.4% of grades awarded the top level A* mark.  Almost half of the year group of 145 pupils have received a fantastic eight A* A grades, or better.

Success has been achieved across all subjects, with the breadth of the School’s offering and the pupils’ interests evident in the subjects which have performed particularly well.  In Religious Studies, Geography and Biology at least 90% of the grades were A*A; in English Language, Chemistry, Physics, Greek and Computer Science the percentage of A*A grades was 80%, or better.

There have been some notable individual performances.  Amelie Goetz, Ed Haselden, Nicolas Heller, Nicholas Kwok, Charlie Lloyd-Jones, Freya Radford, Henry Robinson and Tim Tian are amongst the pupils who achieved at least 10A*s, whilst Lana Davies, William Lithgow and Meg Sellers head up the list with 11A* each.  A further 12 pupils achieved 9A*s.

Like many QP students these pupils are also actively involved in the co-curricular side of school life.  Freya Radford is a keen athlete and was the first girl home in the Routh (QP’s annual mini-marathon), Meg Sellers is a top netballer and hockey player who is also the current Girls’ Open Tennis Champion.  Henry Robinson is a sports scholar and was part of the squad at this summer’s Cape Town International Hockey Festival, whilst Charlie Lloyd-Jones is a member of the Fives team and also one of our thespians – he took a lead role in last year’s performance of Grease.

Lana Davies is in the 1st Sailing Team and an accomplished musician, as is Tim Tian, who is one of the saxophonists in the Jazz Orchestra, and William Lithgow, who sings in the Chapel Choir and is a grade 8 flautist.  Keen designer Nicholas Kwok has been awarded an Arkwright Scholarship and is currently designing the Lorne House baubles ready for sale this Christmas.

Dr Richard Maloney, Headmaster, said, “this year’s results have set the bar very high. Our Upper Fifth pupils have met the challenges of their GCSE courses and excelled. It is such a credit to them and their teachers to see their hard work so unequivocally affirmed.  What is particularly rewarding is the knowledge that QP students enjoy and succeed in activities beyond the classroom: they get involved on the sports field, in the theatre and concert halls, and take on so many different opportunities beyond the curriculum.

We are all looking forward to working with such a talented group of young people as they move forward into the sixth form.”

**This is the first year that Qp Pupils have taken some IGCSE/GCSE examinations which receive the new 9-1 grades, however, of the 23 subjects offered at the School, 15 are still receiving the A*-G grading.  As the majority of the examinations taken this year were graded under the ‘old’ scheme the new numerical grades have been converted to the A*-G equivalent for reporting purposes. In 2019 all examinations will be graded 9-1.

Our School Shop was officially opened by the Headmaster on Wednesday 14^th April 2021.

Accompanied by the School Captains and the Chairman of QP School Enterprises Ltd, Russell Price, Dr Maloney was pleased to be able to mark the opening of the shop in its new location on High Street West.

Located close to the heart of the School, the Shop has been reimagined to create a contemporary space that showcases the QP uniform and sportswear, alongside stationery, school essentials and memorabilia. In addition, the new School Shop stocks the uniform for QP Community College, Leighfield Primary School, and St Mary and St John Primary School.

As well as being a convenient option for pupils to pick up anything they may need throughout the term, the School Shop has been designed to also offer new pupils and their parents a spacious, purpose-built fitting room area for uniform fittings.

The Shop’s hours of opening are Monday to Friday 10.00 – 17.00 and Saturday 10.45 – 14.45.

Congratulations to QP’s Upper Fifth pupils who have excelled, achieving an outstanding set of GCSE and IGCSE results.

Seventy pupils achieved at least eight 9-7 (equivalent A*A) grades, while one-fifth of the year gained straight 9-7 (A*A) grades.

Amongst the results are some outstanding individual successes, including: eleven 9-8 (A*) grades for Ellie Buttery, Imogen de Csillery, Rosie Gordon, Daniel Livermore and Lucy Sexton; at least ten 9-8 (A*) for Oluwatise Ajayi and Clemmie Manning; plus at least nine 9-8 (A*) for Michael Chen, Olivia Clarke, David Hammond, Harriet Lawson, Sam Martin, Perrin Tong and Michael Wong.  Our congratulations to them all.

Departmentally there are particularly strong results in the sciences with 95% of Biology and Chemistry results being graded 9-7 (A*A); in Geography and Religious Studies the 9-7 results were 92% and 87% respectively and within the creative and technical subjects both Music and Computer Science secured 80% 9-7 grades.

Most GCSE and IGCSE examinations now receive the new 9-1 grades. The new grading system has made it harder for pupils across the country to gain the top grades, so it is particularly pleasing to see many QP pupils doing so very well under the new system.

Dr Richard Maloney, Headmaster of QP School, said: “I am full of praise for our Upper Fifth pupils who have done brilliantly in their GCSE exams this year. Their successes, and the sterling efforts made by their teachers to draw the best from each student, are to be commended. Pupils at QP benefit from an all-round education and it is especially pleasing to know that they participate and enjoy success in activities beyond the academic curriculum, getting involved in sports, music, theatre and much more besides. We are looking forward to welcoming back our talented pupils as they move into the Sixth Form in the new school year.”